Stoichiometric Cooking
Everyday chemistry is occurring all around us, we just need to make the connection. Cooking is a prime example of mixing reactants together and forming a product. At times, we have to modify our recipe to meet our needs or scale back our recipe because of the lack of necessary ingredients that we have.
We're going to take our favorite recipe and convert it into a balanced chemical equation - full of our own chemical elements and mole relationships. Then we're going to create our own cooking show (you create the show title). Finally, your assessment will be to modify your specific recipe to meet the needs of the scenario you will be presented.
Everyday chemistry is occurring all around us, we just need to make the connection. Cooking is a prime example of mixing reactants together and forming a product. At times, we have to modify our recipe to meet our needs or scale back our recipe because of the lack of necessary ingredients that we have.
We're going to take our favorite recipe and convert it into a balanced chemical equation - full of our own chemical elements and mole relationships. Then we're going to create our own cooking show (you create the show title). Finally, your assessment will be to modify your specific recipe to meet the needs of the scenario you will be presented.
Chemical Elements of Common Cooking Ingredients
Butter: Bu
Chemical Measurements of Common Cooking Ingredients
Butter: Bu = 1/2 cup = 1 mol
Peanut butter: Pb = 1 cup = 1 mol
White Sugar: Ws = 1 cup = 1 mol
Brown Sugar: Bs = 1 cup = 1 mol
Eggs: Eg = 1 egg = 1 mol
Flour: F = 1 cup = 1 mol
Baking Powder: Bp = 1 teaspoon = 1 mol
Salt: S = 1 teaspoon = 1 mol
Baking Soda: Bk = 1 teaspoon = 1 mol
Cheddar Cheese: Cc = 1/2 cup = 1 mol
Mozzarella Cheese: Mc = 1/2 cup = 1 mol
Pizza Sauce: Ps = 1/3 cup = 1 mol
Pepperonis: P = 1/3 cup = 1 mol
Chopped Onions: Co = 1/4 cup = 1 mol
English Muffins: Em = 1 muffin = 1 mol
Vanilla Extract: Ve = 1 teaspoon = 1 mol
Chocolate Chips: Ch = 1 cup = 1 mol
graham crackers: Gc= 1 cup = 1 mol
Butterscotch pieces: Bt= 1/2 cup = 1 mol
Coconut: Cn = 1 cup = 1 mol
Chopped Nuts: Ct= 1 cup = 1 mol
sweetened condensed milk: Sc = 1/2 cup = 1 mol
Caramels: Ca= 14 ounces= 1 mol
Evaporated milk: Ea= 12 fluid ounces= 1 mol
Chocolate cake mix: Cm= 18.25 ounces= 1 mol
Semisweet chocolate chips: Ss= 1 cup= 1 mol
Whole pecans: Wp= 1/4 pound= 1 mol
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